Posted by GabaGirl on May 5, 2004, at 13:06:26
In reply to Re: Jury's In: GABA » GabaGirl, posted by LOOPS on May 5, 2004, at 12:52:26
Hi Loops:
Thanks for your reply! I haven't yet tried l-tryptophan but used to eat turkey and turkey burgers a lot to calm myself down on high anxiety days. It worked fairly well. (Beer is also nice or a margarita... :))
Where did you find the l-tryptophan? I would like to try it. Though so far this week I haven't even needed the GABA Calm the or even my passionflower or rescue remedy. Sleep has really, really helped.
I still take some meds, but minimal amounts - prozac, neurontin and zyprexa. The add in's like inositol, fish oil, B-vitamin and diet changes have helped me the most I think.
So are you off meds altogether? And where in Chile are you? I used to date a Chilean artist who told me about it and have always wanted to visit there.
I'm up much further north in the Washington, DC area. Crazy place to live in these days...
As I say the high anxiety is mostly gone of late -- went through the worst of it perhaps the last few weeks. I've have PTSD from a brutal attack over 10 years ago that happened on May 1st. Now that it's past that anniversary and dreading it coming, I'm feeling much, much better!
Best,
GabaGirl
> > Hi:
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> > I'm still around and following this thread. I feel the same way about Inositol. If I don't take it, my energy drops immensely and I get very depressed in the afternoon/evenings.
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> > The GABA Calm seems helpful for calming me down, but may be overkill now. I didn't need to take it today so far. Good sign?
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> > I found a really interesting article on anxiety and depression/bipolar from the Mcman site. Makes it seem even more so that "calmative" supplements and herbs like GABA, taurine, passionflower -- one of my faves -- are especially helpful to us who may have both anxiety and depression/bipolar.
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> > Here is the link: http://www.mcmanweb.com/anxiety.htm
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> > Best,
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> > GabaGirl
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> Hi GabaGirl -
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> see my above post on l-tryptophan. It's really working for me. I don't know how long I will take it for though - depends what long term effects there are (if I go too much the other way). It also seems to have sorted out the inositol dilemmma in that I am no longer too activated by it.
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> Hang in there and take whatever you have to, that's my motto. It's all better than meds.
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> Loops
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